Re: Sharing /usr

2006-06-15 Thread Thibaut Paumard
ll > > > Debian on these machines, upgrade, remove packages... while > > > sharing /usr/share between all the machines, and /usr between all the > > > machines of a given arch? > > > > I asked this a few months ago about /usr/share -- I have several > > m

Re: Sharing /usr

2006-06-15 Thread Kevin Mark
how would I install > > Debian on these machines, upgrade, remove packages... while > > sharing /usr/share between all the machines, and /usr between all the > > machines of a given arch? > > > > Best regards, Thibaut. > > Note: my question is out of curiosity

Re: Sharing /usr

2006-06-14 Thread hendrik
tectures. > [1] http://www.pathname.com/fhs/ > > What would be the preferred way for doing such things under Debian? > Assume I have several i386 boxes and a few sparcs, how would I install > Debian on these machines, upgrade, remove packages... while > sharing /usr/share between a

Sharing /usr

2006-06-14 Thread Thibaut Paumard
things under Debian? Assume I have several i386 boxes and a few sparcs, how would I install Debian on these machines, upgrade, remove packages... while sharing /usr/share between all the machines, and /usr between all the machines of a given arch? Best regards, Thibaut. Note: my question is out of

Re: sharing /usr and /usr/share

2006-01-30 Thread Mike McCarty
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The FHS says that /usr is sharable, read-only data. And that /usr/share is sharable even across architectures. I suppose you mean Filesystem Hierarchy Standard. Now suppose I have a network of Debian machines, whose packages are all maintained and regularly upgrade

sharing /usr and /usr/share

2006-01-29 Thread hendrik
The FHS says that /usr is sharable, read-only data. And that /usr/share is sharable even across architectures. Now suppose I have a network of Debian machines, whose packages are all maintained and regularly upgraded with aptitude. Presumably, each machine would have a different set of pack

Re: NFS sharing /usr

2001-06-18 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Sat, Jun 16, 2001 at 06:54:59PM +0100, Jonathan Matthews wrote: > Or am I going at this the wrong way - is NFS'ing the whole of /usr not a > Good Thing? > If so, what's the solution that results in a global /usr for the > clients? I looked at this same idea a couple months back (check the archi

Re: NFS sharing /usr

2001-06-16 Thread Jonathan Matthews
From: nico de haer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > What would happen if you 'just' installed a deb on all pc's ? worst case: > they write the same file to /usr a few times. Best part: all pc's fix their > own /etc and related stuff. (do note: this is an idea, not something i've > tried) Well, ideally I'

NFS sharing /usr

2001-06-16 Thread Jonathan Matthews
Hi all- I'm NFS sharing /usr from one box to a number of other, with the aim of having only to do one apt update to the server machine (when I finally get my 28.8 modem working ... :-) and so as not to waste disk space on the client machines. I'd just like to know what anyone el